If a parent neglects to provide articles necessary for his child who is under his charge, according to his circumstances, a third person may in good faith supply such necessaries and recover the reasonable value thereof from the parent.
S.D. Codified Laws § 25-7-10
Liability of parent for necessaries supplied to child
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Department of Social Services of South Dakota Ex Rel. Wright v. Byer (2004)
Most recently applied in Nace v. Nace (July 2008)
Source: SDC 1939, § 14.0313.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.